Midway Games Inc.

Ed Boon was pulling punches. I could tell immediately: Why else would Aquaman be wiping the floor with Batman? Not to mention, I was playing Ed Boon in a video game, a fighting game, that Ed Boon, the king of the fighting-game genre, created. The game was “Injustice,” his new best-seller set inside the DC Comics universe. I was playing as Aquaman and Boon was playing as Batman. We were in the 14-seat screening room of his NetherRealm Studios in the North Center neighborhood, haymakers and kicks and explosions blasting across a monitor before us. Boon sat up in his chair, his Xbox 360 controller held at chin level, seemingly concentrating, caught up in the fight, but secretly,...

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Ed Boon was pulling punches.
I could tell immediately: Why else would Aquaman be wiping the floor with Batman? Not to mention, I was playing Ed Boon in a video game, a fighting game, that Ed Boon, the king of the fighting-game genre, created. The game...